Wire mat



(No Model.)

P. HAINSWORTH.

WIRE MAT.

No. 886,126. Patent-ed July 1'7, 1888.

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UNITE TATES ATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK HAINSWVORTH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WIRE MAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,126, dated July 17, 1888.

(No model.)

To Ml whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK HAINS- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Mats Made of \Vovencoiled wire of each kind is cut of equal length and placed side by side of each other, when the curved parts of one piece will pass between the curved parts of the other, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I then take a wire, A, and insert it through the curved parts that have passed each other. Thus the two coils of wire are locked together. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) This operation of forming the fabric as above described is continued until a sufiicient fabric is made for use, as desired. A border or frame is placed around the fabric in the following manner: Through the outer coils on two sides of the fabric is inserted the rod or whatever material the border is made of, as shown at B, Fig. 1. The ends of the locking-wires A are-wound around other rods forming the remainder of the border, as shown in Fig. 1 at O. In Fig. 2 the dotted lines D show or indicate one side of the border or frame. This right and left coiling of the strands and joining them together, as herein shown, causes the surface of the fabric to present a checked or broken appearance. At the same time it is very strong and durable.

In the fabric the wires coiled to the right alternate with the wires coiled to the leftthat is, every other one is coiled to the right and every other one is coiled to the left.

I claim As an article of manufacture,a mat made of coiled wire, one strand of which is coiled to the left and one strand coiled to the right, and the two coils joined together by a straight wire and provided with a border, on two sides of which the rods forming the border pass through the coils, and on the remainder of. the sides the ends of the straight wires are wound around the rods forming the border, substantially as shown.

FREDERICK H AINSVORTH.

\Vitnesses:

J AS. A. OowLEs, M. O. BURT. 

